But then last week, the rest of the media caught up with our report. On Tuesday, news finally broke of a revised Met Office ‘decadal forecast’, which not only acknowledges the pause, but predicts it will continue at least until 2017. It says world temperatures are likely to stay around 0.43 degrees above the long-term average – as by then they will have done for 20 years.

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A day before the revised Met Office forecast broke, US blog site Planet 3.0 awarded me its Golden Horseshoe award for the ‘most brazenly damaging and malign bad science of 2013’.’

This is bad news. The Met office has been so wrong in interpreting the tea leaves for so long that to maintain the trend one should prepare for climate between now and 2020 that will alternately condense nitrogen out of the atmosphere and melt tungsten.

There was something in the media a few days ago about temperatures “below absolute zero”. Perhaps that could be a target.

I have said many times before on WUWT, the Met Office is a national embarrassment and is no longer fit for purpose.
I read Christopher Booker’s column in the Telegraph this morning, the MO have a severe weather warning for NE England and it is snowing, with (according to my weather station), a temperature below freezing.
Maybe a long overdue penance from the Met Office is forthcoming!!

As long as the prime ministers familly have interests in wind farms, as long as the deputy prime ministers familly have interests in wind farms as long as john selwyn gummer has interests in connecting wind farms to the national grid, as long as the Tim yeo, the head of Parliaments Climate change committee has interest in renewable energy, as long as the bbc’s pension pot has interests in climate change, as long as the leader of her majestys opposition (who iintroduced the disastrous climage change act) fails to admit his cockup, and as long as we remain part of the EU, NOTHING WILL CHANGE!

The MET office is only interesting in ONE thing and that is maintaining its funding. Looking at Europe as a whole, its ridiculous that the MET office even still exists. With Meteo France producing accurate forecasts that put the METs to shame time and time again it does beg the obvious question, WHY do us brits still fund a largely useless NGO like the MET office. Sure it provides some essential services but it could do this at a fraction of its current cost. For an organisation that is clearly political, it reputation has drifted up and down with the wind but now I think there is a very real problem for them. Even the politicians in the UK are finally waking up to the fact they have been hoodwinked by the junk scientists and gravy trainers and in these cash-strapped times, I genuinely hope that the cash stream is throttled and the UK can channel funds into independent research. Maybe then we can push forward and make new climate discoveries instead of pouring money into “super-computers” that require new “parameters” to correct the reality to suit the fools who predicted so badly.

The Met Office is to long term climate predictions what the Catholic Church was to Solar System science in the times of Galileo Galilei: completely and utterly wrong but prepared to ostracise and destroy anyone who tries to stand up to them.

Rhys Jaggar says:
January 14, 2013 at 3:28 am
The Met Office is to long term climate predictions what the Catholic Church was to Solar System science in the times of Galileo Galilei: completely and utterly wrong but prepared to ostracise and destroy anyone who tries to stand up to them.

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With a little research you might discover how silly is your hyperbolic analogy.